This blog is a tool to get over my irrational fear of anyone actually reading my writing. You will find entries on writing, books, and whatever else falls out of my head. There are also lots of entries on possums. I am losing the war against possums. Send help.

Sounds a bit like our first contact with the Canadian tax system. It took us days to navigate the maze that first year, and we didn't even have any income to declare!

For us, now, there's free software available to do all the math for you, which is awesome. Many people still go to professionals anyway to make sure they're claiming all the right things. Knowing what to claim makes a vast difference.

The IRS seems weird like that. Heaps of paper forms, and masses and masses of instructions and printable PDFs, and, yet, what about filing online? Where's that? We've had that in Australia for ages, and we're practically still in the dark ages when it comes to technology!